All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
TACITUSConspicuous by his absence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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