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.
TACITUSIn private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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