In valor there is hope.
TACITUSNoble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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