That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
TACITUSKindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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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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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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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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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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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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