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.
TACITUSPerdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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In valor there is hope.
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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