The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
TACITUSRumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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