More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSAbuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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