Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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