Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
TACITUSThe 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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