The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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This 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.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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