"Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons."
— War and peace

January 1, 1970

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Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, New and Old (published 1625); in James A. Spedding, Robert L. Ellis and Douglas D. Heath, eds., The Works of Francis Bacon, vol. 13 (1860, reprinted 1969), no. 149, p. 359.