Tacitus

Tacitus (c. 56-117+)

"Impatience has ruined many excellent men who, rejecting the slow, sure way, court destruction by rising too quickly."

• From The Annals of Imperial Rome (Chapter 6), by Tacitus, translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics, 1996). 

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