Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
TACITUSPeople flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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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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