Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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More Tacitus Quotes
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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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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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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