This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
TACITUSWhatever is unknown is magnified.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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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 most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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