It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
TACITUSTraitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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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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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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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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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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