A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TACITUSWhen the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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