Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
TACITUSLegions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The 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.]
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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