Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUSThose in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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