More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSVictor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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 lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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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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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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