If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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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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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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