Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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