Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
TACITUSThe 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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