Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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 the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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