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.
TACITUSThey terrify lest they should fear.
More Tacitus Quotes
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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In valor there is hope.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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