Quote #17
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
More from Tacitus
- Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
- The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
- Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated you will be thought to have deserved it.
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- What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
- He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
- The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
- Deos fortioribus adesse.