An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
More Tacitus Quotes
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in 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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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