It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
TACITUSWho the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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