There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUSSo 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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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 task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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