They became so addicted to war and the perils of war that, whereas in times past they had been more cautious in this regard than the rest of the world, they did not refrain from attacking even their own allies and their own benefactors. Isocrates. On the Peace. Speech 8. Section 97.
Image: Gizur and the Huns, 1886, by Norwegian painter Peter Nicolai Arbo
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