Herodotus Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

  Herodotus

  Peace, Father, Military

• And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

  Herodotus

  War, Water, Giving

• In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Peace, Children

  Histories bk. 1, sec. 87

• Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

  Herodotus

  War, Evil, Effort

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