None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSWhatever is unknown is magnified.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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