Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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In valor there is hope.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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