If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
TACITUSRulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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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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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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