Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
TACITUSPosterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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