Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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