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Hasty and adventurous schemes are at first view flattering, in execution difficult, and in the issue disastrous. [Lat., Consilia callida et audacia prima specie laeta, tractatu dura, eventu tristia sunt.] - Annales (XXXV, 32) [Business] No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] - Annales (XXXVIII, 49) [Envy] To those to whom war is necessary it is just; and a resort to arms is righteous in those to whom no means of assistance remain except by arms. [Lat., Justum est bellum, quibus necessarium; et pia arma, quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur opes.] - History (bk. IX, 1) [War] You need only a show of war to have peace. [Lat., Ostendite modo bellum, pacem habebitis.] - History (VI, 18, 7) [War] The flower of the young men (the flower of youth.) [Lat., Flos juvenum (Flos juventutis).] - VIII, 8; XXXVII, 12 [Youth] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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