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.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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