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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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.
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