Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
TACITUSThe Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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 lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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