Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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In valor there is hope.
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