Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TACITUSNo hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Be 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.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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