Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSThe sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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