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.
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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