If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
TACITUSAll bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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