Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUSKindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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