» Add Quotes to Your Site - Quote Generatoradd quote of the day, random quotes or by topic (e.g. funny quotes) Quote DB :: Authors :: Tacitus :: View Quote View Quote "It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families." - Copy to Clipboard -- Tacitus Listed in: War & Peace Add Quote To Your Quote List Rating: 5 Rate Quote 4 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Top 5 quotes from Tacitus "A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man." "Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to 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." "In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous." "Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable." Top 5 quotes from War & Peace "Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago." "A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." "If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!" "It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families." "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
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