The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
TACITUSIt is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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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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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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