Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSThe wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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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.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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