Whatever is unknown is magnified.
TACITUSCrime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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