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.
TACITUSMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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