Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSThe 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.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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