Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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