Herodotus (c. 490-425/420 BCE)
“No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace – in peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.”
- From The Histories (Book 1, section 87)by Herodotus, translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt and revised by John Marincola (Penguin Classics, 2002).
