Seneca the Younger Quotes About War
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We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
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The fear of war is worse than war itself.
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Men practice war; beasts do not.
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
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