Whatever is unknown is magnified.
TACITUSIt is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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