Bellum Quotes
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Felix est illa civitas quae in pace bellum cogitat.
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Qui desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
— c.380 AD Epitoma Rei Miltaris, no.3, prologue.This became familiar in the MiddleAges as Si vis pacem para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war).
Bestia illa de Apocalypsi, cui datum est os loquens blasphemias, et bellum gerere cum sanctis (Apoc. XIII, 5-7), Petri cathedram occupat, tanquam leo paratus ad praedam.
bernard of clairvaux— That beast of the Apocalypse, to whom is given a mouth speaking blasphemies, and to make war with the saints, is sitting on the throne of Peter, like a lion ready for his prey.
— To Magister Geoffrey of Loretto (afterwards Archbishop of Bordeaux), Letter 37 ( c. 1131), in Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux (1904), Dr. Samuel John Eales, trans., John Hodges, London, p. 139. [1]
— "That beast" to which Bernard refers is antipope Peter Leonis.
Illa iniusta bella sunt, quae sunt sine causa suscepta. nam extra ulciscendi aut propulsandorum hostium causam bellum geri iustum nullum potest.
cicero— A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
— De Re Publica, Book 3, Chapter 23.
Equidem ad pacem hortari non desino; quae vel iniusta utilior est quam iustissimum bellum cum civibus.
cicero— As for me, I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars. (Translation by E.O. Winstedt)
— Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) VII 14 (Latin and English) in the Loeb Classical Library, translated by E.O. Winstedt.
— Popular but oversimplifying translations:I never cease urging peace, which, however unfair, is better than the justest war in the world.
— An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Aetolos Acarnanas Macedonas, eiusdem linguae homines, leues ad tempus ortae causae diiungunt coniunguntque: cum alienigenis, cum barbaris aeternum omnibus Graecis bellum est eritque; natura enim, quae perpetua est, non mutabilibus in diem causis hostes sunt...
livy— Translation: The Aitolians, the Akarnanians, the Macedonians, men of the same speech, are united or disunited by trivial causes that arise from time to time; with aliens, with barbarians, all Greeks wage and will wage eternal war; for they are enemies by the will of nature, which is eternal, and not from reasons that change from day to day...
— Liber XXXI, 29, 15
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
— Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.
— De Re Militari (also known as Epitoma rei militaris), Book 3
— Variant: Si vis pacem para bellum. ("If you want peace, prepare for war.")
Felix est illa civitas quae in pace bellum cogitat.
gerald of wales— Happy the state which in times of peace is yet prepared for war.Book 2, chapter 9, p. 271.Compare Vegetius De Re Militari: "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum" (Let him who desires peace prepare for war).
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
— Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.
— De Re Militari (also known as Epitoma rei militaris), Book 3
— Variant: Si vis pacem para bellum. ("If you want peace, prepare for war.")
Pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum.
— Translation: Peace is better than the most just war.
Illa iniusta bella sunt, quae sunt sine causa suscepta. nam extra ulciscendi aut propulsandorum hostium causam bellum geri iustum nullum potest.
— A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
— De Re Publica, Book 3, Chapter 23.
Equidem ad pacem hortari non desino; quae vel iniusta utilior est quam iustissimum bellum cum civibus.
— I never cease urging peace, which, however unfair, is better than the justest war in the world.
— An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Aetolos Acarnanas Macedonas, eiusdem linguae homines, leues ad tempus ortae causae diiungunt coniunguntque: cum alienigenis, cum barbaris aeternum omnibus Graecis bellum est eritque; natura enim, quae perpetua est, non mutabilibus in diem causis hostes sunt...
— Translation: The Aitolians, the Akarnanians, the Macedonians, men of the same speech, are united or disunited by trivial causes that arise from time to time; with aliens, with barbarians, all Greeks wage and will wage eternal war; for they are enemies by the will of nature, which is eternal, and not from reasons that change from day to day...
— Liber XXXI, 29, 15
