Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
TACITUSAll bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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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.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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