Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
More Tacitus Quotes
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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