Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSIt is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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In valor there is hope.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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