Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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