Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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