Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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