An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
TACITUSWar will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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