There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUSWe see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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