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“To ravage, to slaughter, to steal, this they give the false name of empire; and where they create a desert, they call it peace.”
― Tacitus

“The majority merely disagreed with other people's proposals, and, as so often happens in these disasters, the best course always seemed the one for which it was now too late.”
― Tacitus, The Annals/The Histories

“All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.”
― Tacitus, The Histories I-II

“Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude.”
― Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania