Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSWe extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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