Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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