Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSA man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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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 the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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