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.
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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Rumor is not always wrong
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