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Petrarch

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Petrarch

Peace

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Petrarch identifies greed, desire for power, jealousy, rage, and excessive self-importance as the main causes that disrupt peace among people. He believes that if these harmful traits were completely removed from human nature, lasting peace would be guaranteed.

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