The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
More Tacitus Quotes
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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