Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
TACITUSThe love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
TACITUSAll inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
TACITUSEloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TACITUSThere can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUSWe see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
TACITUSSo 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.
TACITUSWhen men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
TACITUSDeos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
TACITUSEverything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSTo plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
TACITUSThe love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
TACITUSSecure 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.
TACITUSViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSOld things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSZealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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