Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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