Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSOnce killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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