The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
TACITUSAll bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
More Tacitus Quotes
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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