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.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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