Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSFear 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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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