Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUSBe assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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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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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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