Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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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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