Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
TACITUSIn seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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 shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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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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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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