In valor there is hope.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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