Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TACITUSIt is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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In valor there is hope.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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