Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TacitusTags: power timidity roman-empire rome empires
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TacitusSo obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
TacitusTags: truth history facts posterity falsehoods
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.
TacitusThink of it. Fifteen whole years-no small part of a mans life.-taken from us-all the most energetic have fallen to the cruelty of the emperor. And the few that survive are no longer what we once were. Yet I find some small satisfaction in acknowledging the bondage we once suffered. Tacitus, The Agricola
TacitusThey make a desolation and call it peace.
TacitusTags: imperialism opression occupation
A bad peace is worse than war.
TacitusIf you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TacitusTags: paranoia authority anarchism
За обиждащия е свойство да ненавижда тези, които е обидил.
TacitusThere was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
TacitusTags: inspirational
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