Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSRemedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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