Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
TACITUSDeos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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