Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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