It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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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