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No man is so foolish as to desire war more than peace: for in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.—Herodotus
Better a certain peace than a hoped-for victory.—Livy
“It’s criminal to pick soldiers because they were dumb in college.” But Joe’s philosophical roommate offered a correction: “The crime began when our nation permitted college to serve as an exemption from a service which for others was obligatory.”
Joe passed on, but the meaningless incident kept reverberating in his mind, day after day—the horrible fact that in this war black men who could not afford to attend university were drafted and white men who had the money were not.
Go to Europe, educate yourself, and when this madness is over, come back and go to jail. Because if you go into your cell with ideas and visions, the years of imprisonment won’t be wasted and you may come out a man of substance.”
The daughter of a lion is also a lion.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods.—Hazlitt
God is not dead. He simply refuses to get involved.
It was the saying of Bion that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.—Plutarch
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.—Oliver Wendell Holmes
