Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TACITUSTo 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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