“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch, p. 209.
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Che disiarlo, e non averlo mai.
XVII, 6
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato