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.]
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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In valor there is hope.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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 rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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