[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
TACITUSSecure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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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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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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