All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
TACITUSIf we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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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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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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In valor there is hope.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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