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.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
More Tacitus Quotes
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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