Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSThis I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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