Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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