Day: October 10, 2011

Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.

Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos (1813), Canto 2, stanza 20.

Byron takes this thought from Publius (42BC) [Publilius Syrus] Roman writer, philosopher.  Translated as follows:  To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.