Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
TACITUSA bad peace is even worse than war.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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