Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TACITUSNoble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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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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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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