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.
TACITUSCustom adapts itself to expediency.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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In valor there is hope.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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