Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUSOld things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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 brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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