Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUSOne who is allowed to sin, sins less
More Tacitus Quotes
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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