More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSConspicuous by his absence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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