They terrify lest they should fear.
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
The unknown always passes for the marvellous.