Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSBy general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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The 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.
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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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