In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSAll bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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