None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSEloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
More Tacitus Quotes
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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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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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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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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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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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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