It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TACITUSRumor is not always wrong
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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.
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