War and Peace

Works to read

• The Rights of War and Peace (Book I) by Hugo Grotius, 1625
• The Civil War by Julius Caesar, 49-48 BCE
• Perpetual Peace by Immanuel Kant, 1795
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1865-1869 · Great Books
• Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud, 1915 (English 1918) · Great Books
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu, c. 5th century BCE
• The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus, c. 75 CE
• The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1521
• The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes, 1919
• Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrian Goldsworthy, 2016
• The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, c. 431–411 BCE · Great Books
• History of the Wars, Books I-II (The Persian War) by Procopius of Caesarea, c. 550 CE

Passages

• Peace is the natural effect of trade.

  — Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

• My peace is gone, My heart is sore: I never shall find it, Ah, nevermore!

  — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One

• the morally practical Reason utters within us its irrevocable Veto: ' There shall be no War

  — Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right

• ‘The Peace which passeth understanding’ is a feeble translation of the content of this word.

  — T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

• I know myself now, and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience

  — William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

• In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours

  — William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

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