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A mind at peace does not engender wars.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

Sophocles
War, Mind, Doe
Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Sophocles
Peace, War, Men

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

Sophocles
War, Fate, Ships
Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Sophocles
Peace, War, News

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

Sophocles
Love, War, Victim
"Scyrii". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 507,

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Sophocles
War, Fate, Dark

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