There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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The 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.
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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