It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TACITUSThere are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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