« Plut. Pyrrh. 12 | Plut. Pyrrh. 12 | Plut. Pyrrh. 13 | About This Work »
3it is impossible to say. Nay, they are perpetually at war, because plots and jealousies are parts of their natures, and they treat the two words, war and peace, like current coins, using whichever happens to be for their advantage, regardless of justice; for surely they are better men when they wage war openly than when they give the names of justice and friendship to the times of inactivity and leisure which interrupt their work of injustice.
« Plut. Pyrrh. 12 | Plut. Pyrrh. 12 | Plut. Pyrrh. 13 | About This Work »