The most seditious is the most cowardly.
TACITUSA cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
More Tacitus Quotes
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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