Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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