Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
TACITUSThe desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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