The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSEverything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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 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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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