Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
TACITUSOld things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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