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War Quotes by Tacitus
- The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
- War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
- 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.
- A bad peace is even worse than war.
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