Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
TACITUSAdversity deprives us of our judgment.
TACITUSValor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSThe injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TACITUSOnce killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUSWhen men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
TACITUSCorruptisima republica plurimae leges.
TACITUSConspicuous by his absence.
TACITUSBottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
TACITUSAll enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
TACITUSRemedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
TACITUSThe changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
TACITUSThe 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.]
TACITUSAbuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
TACITUSFollowing Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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