Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUSA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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