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.
TACITUSThe word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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