Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
TACITUSCrime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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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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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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