Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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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 Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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