Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSIf we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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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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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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