All Your Favourite Quotations Are A Lie (Pt 1)

'Only the dead have seen the end of war.' Plato.

I first became aware of this marvellous quotation - so wise, pithy and dark - on one of my frequent trips to the Imperial War Museum. It’s one of a series, inscribed on the wall beside the ramp leading down to the World War I/trench section. Another of my favourites is attributed to Thucydides: ‘There were…