Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSA bad peace is even worse than war.
More Tacitus Quotes
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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