We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
TACITUSIn all things there is a law of cycles.
More Tacitus Quotes
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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In valor there is hope.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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