Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUSThe task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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