“This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.”
Quoted on BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/21/newsid_2549000/2549809.stm
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“As for me, I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars.”
Equidem ad pacem hortari non desino; quae vel iniusta utilior est quam iustissimum bellum cum civibus.
Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book VII, Letter 14, section 3; as translated by E.O. Winstedt in the Loeb Classical Library http://archive.org/stream/letterstoatticus02ciceuoft#page/68/mode/2up

“Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Gates of Eden

p. 110 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zsm3TLe1cAUC&pg=PA110
The Expansion of England (1883)

“He who did well in war just earns the right
To begin doing well in peace.”
Luria, Act ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
Baba (115)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 200