Ancient Wisdom for the Fourth of July

To mark the fifth Fourth of July since we invaded Iraq, here's a fragment from the Greek poet Philemon:

What is the real Good?
It is Peace!
How loving is that goddess, and how kind!
Marriages, festivals, kin, children, friends,
Food, wine, health, riches, happiness she gives.
And if of all these things we are deprived,
Dead is the life of men, while they yet live!

- Philemon (368 BC - AD 264) (excerpted from "Peace is Happiness")