Tacitus Quotes
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
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He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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That form of eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Rumor is not always wrong.
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The changeful change of circumstances.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.