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Lucan on War

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You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated.

Men are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

But silenced now are laws in war: we driven from our homes; yet is our exile willing.

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but prevent a civil war.

Good faith and probity are rarely found among the followers of the camp.

But Caesar had more than a mere name and military reputation: his energy could never rest, and his one disgrace was to conquer without war.

The wounds of civil war are deeply felt.

The conqueror is not so much pleased by entering into open gates, as by forcing his way. He desires not the fields to be cultivated by the patient husbandman; he would have them laid waste by fire and sword. It would be his shame to go by a way already opened.

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