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Attribuita a Plato

«'Only the dead have seen the end of war.'»

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A widespread false attribution: it appears in no work of Plato. It comes from George Santayana, Soliloquies in England (1922), the soliloquy 'Tipperary'; General Douglas MacArthur popularised it as Platonic in an address at West Point (1962).

Fonte: Suzanne, Bernard, «Did Plato write “Only the dead have seen the end of war”?», Plato and his dialogues (FAQ), 2002; cf. Santayana, George, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922, n.º 25 «Tipperary».

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