There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUSI am my nearest neighbour.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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