They 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.
TacitusThe lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TacitusThen there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
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