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.
TACITUSAn honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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In valor there is hope.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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