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.]
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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