Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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