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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Plutarch
War, Fighting, Delight

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

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War, Law, Noise
"Life of Caius Marius". Reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 10th ed., 1919.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

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War, Special, Firsts

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Plutarch
War, Gale, Tempest

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