The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TACITUSNeglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
More Tacitus Quotes
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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