"Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?"

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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.

— Michel de Montaigne