Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUSGreat empires are not maintained by timidity.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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