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.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
More Tacitus Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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