It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
TACITUSReckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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