Tacitus Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

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

  Tacitus

  Peace, Freedom, War

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

• A bad peace is even worse than war.

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  Peace, War, Ubuntu

• They make a desert and call it peace.

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Desert

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

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

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Crime

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

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  Memorial Day, Peace, War

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

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

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  Peace, War, Empires

• 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.

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  Art, Peace, Solitude

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

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

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  Peace, War

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

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  Peace, Wilderness

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

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