Tacitus Quotes
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Rumor is not always wrong.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The changeful change of circumstances.
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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Experience teaches.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.