Roman quotes that go hard

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I'm reading SPQR by Mary Beard now, which is a generalist introduction to Roman history. There's a lot of cool quotes in there, which I will be listing in here as I go through the book.

"They create desolation and call it peace."
- Tacticus, criticism of Rome

"Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patienta nostra?" / "How long, Cataline, will you go on abusing our patience?"
- First Catilinarian, Cicero

"O tempora, o mores" / "O what a world we live in!" / "O the times, O the customs!"
- First Catilinarian, Cicero

"From the very beginning they [Romans] have possessed nothing except what they have stolen, their homes, their wives, their lands, their empire."
- History of Rome, Sallust, criticism of Rome as imagined from the PoV of their enemies.

"An act of senseless Discord produces a Temple of Concord."
- Anonymous vandalizer