It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
More Tacitus Quotes
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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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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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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