Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSLegions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
More Tacitus Quotes
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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