The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Themes
War
Force, peace, and the burial of sons.
The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
No man is so foolish as to desire war more than peace: for in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.