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In war, truth is the first casualty.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus
Peace, War, Fighting

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

Aeschylus
War, Flower, Host
Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.347, Delphi Classics

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

Aeschylus
Death, War, Fields
Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

Aeschylus
War, Giving, Witness
Aeschylus, David Grene (1959). “Aeschylus”

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

Aeschylus
Time, Revenge, War

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

Aeschylus
War, Firsts, Truth Is

In war the first casualty is the truth.

Aeschylus
War, Political, Politics

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