Tacitus on noble
Tacitus187 quotes“Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.”
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I am my nearest neighbour.
TacitusTacitus The worst hatred is that of relatives.
TacitusTacitus Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TacitusTacitus To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
TacitusTacitus The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TacitusTacitus They make a desert and call it peace.
TacitusTacitus It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
TacitusTacitus An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TacitusTacitus It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
TacitusTacitus No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TacitusTacitus Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TacitusTacitus A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TacitusTacitus Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TacitusTacitus It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
TacitusTacitus The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TacitusTacitus Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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