Tacitus on dare
Tacitus187 quotes“A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.”
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
TacitusTacitus Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TacitusTacitus In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
TacitusTacitus The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
TacitusTacitus The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TacitusTacitus Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TacitusTacitus Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TacitusTacitus Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
TacitusTacitus Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
TacitusTacitus 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.
TacitusTacitus Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
TacitusTacitus The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
TacitusTacitus It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TacitusTacitus 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.
TacitusTacitus More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TacitusTacitus The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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