Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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