Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSOther men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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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 desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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