Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSNothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSIn private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSRumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
TACITUSIn all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
TACITUSIn valor there is hope.
TACITUSValor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSBe assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
TACITUSGreat empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUSIt is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
TACITUSThere are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
TACITUSNo hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
TACITUSWar will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUSThe powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUSPerdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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