It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.