In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSThe 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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