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“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, The Agricola and The Germania

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”
― Carl Sandburg