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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
French writers on war and peace
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Montaigne: Blood on the sword: From slaughter of animals to slaughter of men
Montaigne: God would not favor so unjust an enterprise as insulting and quarreling with another nation for profit
Montaigne: The ignominy of lopsided military conquest
Montaigne: Invasion concerns all men; not so defense: that concerns only the rich
Montaigne: It is enough to dip our pens in ink without dipping them in blood
Montaigne: Monstrous war waged for frivolous reasons
Montaigne: This furious monster war
Montaigne: War, that malady of mankind
Montaigne: War’s fury
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