All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
TACITUSIt is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
More Tacitus Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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