They make solitude, which they call peace.
TACITUSAll inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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