I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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