Sublime

A guerra deles é toda nobre e generosa e tem tanta desculpa e beleza quanto possa permitir essa doença humana; não tem outro fundamento entre eles além da busca da virtude. Não estão em luta pela conquista de novas terras, pois ainda desfrutam dessa fertilidade natural que os abastece, sem trabalho e sem pena, de todas as coisas necessárias, em tal

INTRODUCTION

War is a nation’s way of eating.

Hechas las sumas y las restas, la intervención norteamericana en Guatemala retrasó decenas de años la democratización del continente y costó millares de muertos, pues contribuyó a popularizar el mito de la revolución armada y el socialismo en toda América Latina. Jóvenes de por lo menos tres generaciones mataron y se hicieron matar por otro sueño i

The whole excursus includes very few concrete events, and only four of those are dated: the migration of the Boeotians to Boeotia sixty years after the Trojan War and of the Dorians into the Peloponnese twenty years after that; the construction of four ships by the Corinthian Ameinocles for the Samians three hundred years before the end of the Pelo

The larger world opened by Athens’s earlier triumphs had destabilized its ancient certainties and now seemed to require a larger order—universal, yet conceptual—within which events could be comprehended. The Sophists’ teachings provided no such order, but rather a method for success.

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.