It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSPosterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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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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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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