Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
TACITUSIt is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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