2003-03-20 16:49

Call it Peace

Tacitus:

Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, mare scrutantur. Si locuples hostis est, avari, si pauper, ambitiosi, quos non Oriens, non Occidens satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari adfectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

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