Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
TACITUSAll inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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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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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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