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.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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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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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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