It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TACITUSThat cannot be safe which is not honourable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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