It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSThe hatred of relatives is the most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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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 desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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 task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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