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.
TACITUSIn all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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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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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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