They make a desert and call it peace.
TACITUSThe lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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