Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TACITUSOnce killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
More Tacitus Quotes
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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