Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSNone make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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