quote · Words worth keeping
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Saint Augustine
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 392 AD · classical
author lifetime midpoint (354–430); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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