Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TACITUSThe 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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