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.
TACITUSReason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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Secure 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.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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