I’ve posted this before, but I love it so much i’m posting it again.

“They itemized what the savagery of war was like, what befell the conquered: maidens and boys seized, children wrenched from their parents’ embrace, the mothers of families enduring whatever their conquerers pleased, shrines and homes despoiled, slaughter and burning, and, finally, everywhere filled with arms, corpses, gore and grief.” -Sallust “Catiline’s War.