We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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