Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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In valor there is hope.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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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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