If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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