The Classical Chinese passage is a quote from "Methods of the Sima*, 國雖大，好戰必亡；天下雖安，忘戰必危。 (Though a country be great, if it loves war, it will surely be in ruin; though the world be at peace, if it forgets war, it will surely be in peril.) This is phrase is also quoted somewhere in Records of the Grand Historian (the Grand Historian being a Sima himself).
The Classical Chinese passage is a quote from "Methods of the Sima*, 國雖大，好戰必亡；天下雖安，忘戰必危。 (Though a country be great, if it loves war, it will surely be in ruin; though the world be at peace, if it forgets war, it will surely be in peril.) This is phrase is also quoted somewhere in Records of the Grand Historian (the Grand Historian being a Sima himself).
"Si vis pacem, para bellum."
Thank you; I was just about to try to translate that part (I'm a beginner in Chinese) and never would have caught its origin!
Isn't it amazing how the great civilizations of both the West and Asia come up with the same ideas? :)