Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSEverything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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