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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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