Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSThe unknown always passes for the marvellous.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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