Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
TACITUSThe more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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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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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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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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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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