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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown (Tacitus Quotes)
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty (Tacitus Quotes)
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility (Tacitus Quotes)
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity (Tacitus Quotes)
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich (Tacitus Quotes)
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals (Tacitus Quotes)
Valor is the contempt of death and pain (Tacitus Quotes)
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority (Tacitus Quotes)
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead (Tacitus Quotes)
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable (Tacitus Quotes)
The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion (Tacitus Quotes)
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer (Tacitus Quotes)
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured (Tacitus Quotes)
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it (Tacitus Quotes)
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee (Tacitus Quotes)
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace (Tacitus Quotes)
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from (Tacitus Quotes)
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure (Tacitus Quotes)
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace (Tacitus Quotes)
Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims (Tacitus Quotes)
Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion (Tacitus Quotes)
He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion (Tacitus Quotes)
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue (Tacitus Quotes)
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others (Tacitus Quotes)
Good and evil... Are not what vulgar opinion accounts them; many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable (Tacitus Quotes)
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns (Tacitus Quotes)
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we today hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent (Tacitus Quotes)
He (Tiberius) was won't to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies (Tacitus Quotes)
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent (Tacitus Quotes)
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 (Tacitus Quotes)