87 ordspråk av Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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The unknown always seems sublime
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There will be vice as long as there are men
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They (the Romans) make a desert, and they call it peace
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They made a wasteland and called it peace
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They make a wilderness and call it peace.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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