Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
TACITUSIn stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
More Tacitus Quotes
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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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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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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