One who is allowed to sin, sins less
TACITUSGreater things are believed of those who are absent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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