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War Quotes by Sophocles
- It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
- A mind at peace does not engender wars.
- War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
- War loves to seek its victims in the young.
- Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
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