Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSI am my nearest neighbour.
More Tacitus Quotes
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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