Whatever is unknown is magnified.
TACITUSIt is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
More Tacitus Quotes
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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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.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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