Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUSThey make a desert and call it peace.
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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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