Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSThe persecution of genius fosters its influence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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