Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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