Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSGreat empires are not maintained by timidity.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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