We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
TACITUSNone make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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So 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.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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 desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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