So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
TACITUSLust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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