So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUSMiseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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