Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUSNo one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
More Tacitus Quotes
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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