Whatever is unknown is magnified.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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In valor there is hope.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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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 the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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