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A quotation by Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Peace indeed is both sweet in name and wholesome in reality; but there is all the difference in the world between peace and slavery. Peace is the calmness of freedom, slavery the worst of all evils, to be kept off at a the cost not only of war, but even of life itself.

[Et nomen pacis dulce est et ipsa res salutaris; sed inter pacem et servitutem plurimum interest. Pax est tranquilla libertas, servitus postremum malorum omnium, non modo bello sed morte etiam repellendum.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippicae [Philippics], No. 2, ch. 44 / sec. 113 (2.113) (24 October AD 44) [tr. King (1867)]

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"It does not matter the #circumstances, #trials, or #challenges that might surround us; an #understanding of the #doctrine of #Christ and His #Atonement will be the source of our #strength and #peace—yes, brothers and sisters, that internal #tranquility that is born of the #Spirit and which the #Lord gives to His #faithful #Saints. He nourishes us, saying: “ #Peace I leave with you. … Let not your heart be #troubled, neither let it be #afraid” John 14:27 ~ Benjamin de #Hoyos.

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