Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TACITUSThe Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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