Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUSViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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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 wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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