Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TacitusTacitus In all things there is a law of cycles.
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TacitusTacitus [The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
TacitusTacitus The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
TacitusTacitus Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TacitusTacitus In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
TacitusTacitus 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.
TacitusTacitus The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TacitusTacitus Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TacitusTacitus Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TacitusTacitus Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
TacitusTacitus Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
TacitusTacitus Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.
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