The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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