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• They make a desert and call it peace." -- Tacitus (55?-120?)
• They make a desert and call it peace. -- Tacitu
• Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. -- Tacitus (55?-120?)
• Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. [They make a desert, and callit peace.
  ] -- Tacitus (54-119 AD), Agricola, 30...
• A smattering of philosophy had liberated his [Nero's] intellect without maturing his judgement.
  -- Tacitus (55?-120?)...
• Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 120...
• Better keep peace than make peace.
• Now this is a way to make a phone call!
• Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert--and then make it brief.
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