Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSThe desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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