Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TACITUSLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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