The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
TACITUSPosterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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