There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
War is not a thing one wants.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
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