A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
TACITUSIn a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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