A Quote by Croesus
No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange families batten on their sons, lying on top of them like giant parasites. They not only prey upon their strength, but gnaw away at the sons' right to exist. The fathers punish, but they are at the same time the accusers. The sin of which they accuse their sons seems to be a kind of original sin.
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.
It's necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn't quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.
Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.
Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
