Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
TACITUSThey make solitude, which they call peace.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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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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