Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TACITUSZealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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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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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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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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