Things forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUSAbuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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