No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
TACITUSThe changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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