Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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