Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSNature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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