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Weighing its gains against its harms shows that an unjust peace is far better than a righteous war
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- Desiderius Erasmus Dutch humanist scholar and theologian (1469 to 1536)
Now if a man will weigh, as it were in a pair of balances, the commodities of war on the one side and the incommodities on the other side, he shall find that unjust peace is far better than righteous war.
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