For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
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Attila on empire
Attila12 quotes“For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?”
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Superficial goals lead to superficial results.
AttilaAttila Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.
AttilaAttila Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.
AttilaAttila Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.
AttilaAttila Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.
AttilaAttila It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.
AttilaAttila There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.
AttilaAttila It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.
AttilaAttila If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place
AttilaAttila Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.
AttilaAttila It’s not that I succeed, it’s that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
Ezra PoundEzra Pound A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Robert GravesRobert Graves Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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TacitusTacitus I have done many impious things–no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.
Robert GravesRobert Graves To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
TacitusTacitus Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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