In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUS[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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