Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSIn the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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