All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
TACITUSViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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In valor there is hope.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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