No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
TACITUSKindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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