Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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