When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUSTo plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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