It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The 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.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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