Whatever is unknown is magnified.
TACITUSThat cannot be safe which is not honourable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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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