Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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.]
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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