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May Quotes by Tacitus
- In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
- 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.
- To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
- All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
- It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
- If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
- Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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