All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
TACITUSThere are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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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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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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