Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSGreater things are believed of those who are absent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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