Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUSWhatever is unknown is magnified.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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