Croesus quotes

Croesus quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.”
-- Croesus

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“There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.”
-- Croesus

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“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”
“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

Source : Adam Smith, comte Germain Garnier, Dugald Stewart (1835). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.96
“Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.”
“My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.”
“I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.”
“[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.”
“To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.”
“The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.”

Source : A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

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