The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUSWar will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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