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.
TACITUSAll inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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In valor there is hope.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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