Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
More Tacitus Quotes
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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In valor there is hope.
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