The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
TACITUSThe 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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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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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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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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