Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TACITUSAn honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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 hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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