Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSIf you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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 lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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