It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
TACITUSMen are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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.
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