Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
TACITUSHe (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.
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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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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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