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.
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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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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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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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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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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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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