Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
TACITUSIn the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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[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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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