Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
More Tacitus Quotes
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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