Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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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 dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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