The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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