Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

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Mots clés power timidity roman-empire rome empires

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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

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Mots clés safety caution risk

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So 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.

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Mots clés truth history facts posterity falsehoods

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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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Think 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

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They make a desolation and call it peace.

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Mots clés imperialism opression occupation

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A bad peace is worse than war.

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Mots clés peace war tacitus

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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

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Mots clés paranoia authority anarchism

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За обиждащия е свойство да ненавижда тези, които е обидил.

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There 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.

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Mots clés inspirational

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