Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
TACITUSThey make a desert and call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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In valor there is hope.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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