That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
TACITUSRumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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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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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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