The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
TACITUSIn 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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In valor there is hope.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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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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