They make solitude, which they call peace.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
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, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.