Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSRumor is not always wrong
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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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.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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