Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSKindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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