It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TACITUSNature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
More Tacitus Quotes
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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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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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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