Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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In valor there is hope.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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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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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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