Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUSLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSFlatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUSAll inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
TACITUSNothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSIt is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
TACITUSFollowing Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSForethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
TACITUSThey make solitude, which they call peace.
TACITUSHe (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
TACITUSTo show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
TACITUSAll 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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