Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSIf we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
More Tacitus Quotes
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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