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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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That form of eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family.
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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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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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In valor there is hope.
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Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims.
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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.