No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
TACITUSMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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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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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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