Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUSReckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
More Tacitus Quotes
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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He (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.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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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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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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