Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
TACITUSChristianity is a pestilent superstition.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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