More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
More Tacitus Quotes
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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