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.
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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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