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War Quotes by Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace.
- It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is…
- Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people,…
- When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in…
- And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of…
- The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
- Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of…
- And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical…
- Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
- We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
- It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
- The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself
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