Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
TACITUSCandor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
More Tacitus Quotes
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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In valor there is hope.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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