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Tacitus Inspirational Quotes (133)

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood and both are exaggerated by posterity.
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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