Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSEven for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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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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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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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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