Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant
Posted by Krzysztof Rączkiewicz Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:25:00 GMT
Speech attributed to Calgacus, the leader of the Caledonian Confederacy, by the historian Tacitus in the Agricola
Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.
