Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
TACITUSIn the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In valor there is hope.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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