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.
TACITUSIt is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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