Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
TacitusNeglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
TacitusIn 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.
TacitusThey have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hungerโฆ they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poorโฆ They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
Tacitus