The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
TACITUSThe desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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