Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSIn the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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They make solitude, which they call 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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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