Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUSThe lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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