He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
TACITUSA cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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