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.
TACITUSViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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