Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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More Tacitus Quotes
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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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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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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