Montaigne

So many goodly citties ransacked and razed; so many nations destroyed and made desolate; so infinite millions of harmless people of all sexes, states and ages, massacred, ravaged and put to the sword; and the richest, the fairest and the best part of the world topsiturvied (topsy-turvy), ruined and defaced for the traffick of Pearles and Pepper: Oh, mechanicall victories, oh base conquest. Montainge