Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
More Tacitus Quotes
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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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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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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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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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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