Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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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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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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