Tacitus Quotes
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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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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Rumor is not always wrong.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
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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.