So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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