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.]
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
More Tacitus Quotes
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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