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Peace Quotes by Tacitus
- In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses,…
- In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
- The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
- To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
- 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…
- A bad peace is even worse than war.
- They make a desert and call it peace.
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- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
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- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale