Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
TACITUSCorruptisima republica plurimae leges.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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