Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSValor is the contempt of death and pain.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The 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.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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