Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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