The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
TACITUSIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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