Family Quote by Publius Cornelius Tacitus

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions…

— Pythagoras

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

— Heraclitus

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

— Juan Manuel Santos

Sometimes in order to have peace, love, and happiness there must be war, hate, and sadness.

— Nishan Panwar

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy…

— Petrarch

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows…

— Dan Simmons

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

— Socrates

“The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations, when seeking to determine the…

— Sun Tzu

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

— Livy

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the…

— Wole Soyinka

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

— Ernest Hemingway

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a…

— Thomas Aquinas