Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1328
AUTHOR:
Baruch Spinoza (163277)
QUOTATION:
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character.
ATTRIBUTION:
BARUCH SPINOZA, Tractatus Politicus, Writings on Political Philosophy, ed. A. G. A. Balz, trans. R. H. M. Elwes, p. 110 (1937). Other translations vary.