Democritus: Strange humor: Men covet war in time of peace
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace ==== Democritus As cited by Robert Burton in Anatomy of Melancholy (from putative letters to Hippocrates) “When men live in peace, they covet war, detesting quietness, deposing kings, and advancing others in their stead, murdering some men to […]