In valor there is hope.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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