Tranquillity is more advantageous

Tranquillity is more advantageous and more profitable than meddlesomeness, justice than injustice, and attention to one's own affairs than covetousness of the possessions of others. Isocrates. On the Peace. Speech 8. Section 26.


Image: The Sacred Grove (also known as "Serenity" by Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, 1899, at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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