The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUSPower won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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He (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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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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