The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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