It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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