Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSBottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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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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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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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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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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