Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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