Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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