It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TACITUSOne who is allowed to sin, sins less
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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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 Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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