We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
TACITUSFormerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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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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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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