Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSThe worst hatred is that of relatives.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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 the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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