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No one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons. However, I suppose the god must have wanted this to happen.

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Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 1, sect. 87.

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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, sect. 87.

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