They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
Tacitus
A bad peace is even worse than war.
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A bad peace is worse than war.
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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.
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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