No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.


Herodotus

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In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.
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In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
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Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
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DAN DEWALT
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Good fathers make good sons
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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
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Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers
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They won’t turn away a father who has come to find his son.
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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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Without war we can never appreciate peace & without peace there will be no war.
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War is no solution to peace.
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A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fa...
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The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the so...
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J.C. RYLE
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.
LAINI TAYLOR
People talk peace. But men give their life's work to war.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Just that sons and fathers
Are like mirrors and daughters are soft
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HERODOTUS
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing a...
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I say that this war is the joint responsibility of the people and the governments. While the war con...
BIN LADEN
I have no peace but there will be no war either
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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
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He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fa...
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I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or ...
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I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
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I ask for your support for our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world, not for territor...
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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ARISTOTLE
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
KIN HUBBARD
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
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CHANAKYA
Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.
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Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
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Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 But sons who are mor...
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First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.
GEN. HENRY LEE
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace...
HERODOTUS
In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the sta...
SUN TZU
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
JOHN MILTON
Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.
JOHN MILTON
“War is the only peace for ignorance. Peace is the only war for wisdom.”
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