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Full Idea
All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth, and we want this because of the body, to which we are slave.
Gist of Idea
War aims at the acquisition of wealth, because we are enslaved to the body
Source
Plato (Phaedo [c.374 BCE], 066c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.111