They make a desert and call it peace.
TACITUSThe persecution of genius fosters its influence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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