Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSGreat empires are not maintained by timidity.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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