Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TACITUSVictor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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