قال كroesus لقمبيز: إنّ السلم خيرٌ من الحرب؛ لأنّ الأبناء في السلم يدفنون آباءهم، أمّا في الحروب فالآباء يدفنون أبناءهم.

“Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.”Francis Bacon — The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works (1859)