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Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Following Emporer Nero's command, Let the Christians be exterminated!: . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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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.
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