Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUSThey terrify lest they should fear.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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