All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
TACITUSMen are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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