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.
TACITUSTraitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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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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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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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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