Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSHe that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
More Tacitus Quotes
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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