Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
TACITUSThe injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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