Whatever is unknown is magnified.
TACITUSTo plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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