The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
TACITUSIn seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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 worst hatred is that of relatives.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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