So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUSWhatever is unknown is magnified.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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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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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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