Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
TACITUSBottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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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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