The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
TACITUSAn honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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In 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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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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