So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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