Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSIn stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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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.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Keen at the start, but careless at 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 shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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