Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TACITUSAll things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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