The worst hatred is that of relatives.
TACITUSNo one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
More Tacitus Quotes
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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