More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSNo hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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