The most seditious is the most cowardly.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
TACITUSIt is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
TACITUSLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSIn all things there is a law of cycles.
TACITUSIn all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
TACITUSThey make solitude, which they call peace.
TACITUSThe powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUSNo hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
TACITUSThe desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUSBottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
TACITUSWhen men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSAn honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
TACITUSSecure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
TACITUSWar will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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