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markodochartaigh

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26. "If

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Fri Jan 23, 2026, 04:25 PM

21 hrs ago

an enemy is rich, they are greedy, if he is poor, they crave glory. Neither East nor West can sate their appetite. They are the only people on earth to covet wealth and poverty with equal craving. They plunder, they butcher, they ravish, and call it by the lying name of 'empire'. They make a desert and call it 'peace'".
Calgacus, reported by Tacitus, AD 84

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