Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
TACITUS
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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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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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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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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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.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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![Tacitus Quote - 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.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/the-brave-and-bold-persist-even-against-fortune-th.jpg)
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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