Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
TACITUSThey make solitude, which they call peace.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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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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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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