The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
TACITUSNecessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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