Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
TACITUSMiseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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In valor there is hope.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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