Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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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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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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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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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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