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“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.
The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)
“Life’s brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)
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