Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
TACITUSThe hatred of relatives is the most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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