The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TACITUSSo as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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