A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TACITUSCrime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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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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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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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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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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In 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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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