Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUSThe love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
More Tacitus Quotes
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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