Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
TACITUSMiseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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In valor there is hope.
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