Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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