It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSAll things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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