Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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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.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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