Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
TACITUSIn all things there is a law of cycles.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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