Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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