Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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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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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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