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.
TACITUSFalsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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