Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUS[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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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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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.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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