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Tacitus Quotes about Peace

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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Peace, Freedom, War

"Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

Peace, War, Crime

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Peace, War, Ubuntu

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Peace, War, Empires

So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

Memorial Day, Peace, War

"Agricola". Book by Tacitus, transl. by G. J. Acheson, chapter 4, paragraph 22, final sentence, p. 72, 1938.

They make a desert and call it peace.

Peace, Ubuntu, Desert

Agricola ch. 30. These are allegedly Calgacus's words at the battle of the Grampians.

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.

Art, Peace, Solitude

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 588-91, Agricola, XXX, 1922.

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

Peace, Wilderness

Speech of the British chieftain Calgacus, before the battle of Mons Graupius, referring to the Romans. Agricola, ch.30.

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

Peace, War

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