Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSWe accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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