Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUSMany who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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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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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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The 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.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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