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Tacitus Quote: “Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.”
Tacitus Quote: “The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.”
Tacitus Quote: “Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.”
Tacitus Quote: “The majority merely disagreed with other people’s proposals, and, as so often happens in these disasters, the best course always seemed the one for which it was now too late.”
Tacitus Quote: “Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.”
Tacitus Quote: “The unknown always passes for the marvellous.”
Tacitus Quote: “When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.”
Tacitus Quote: “When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.”
Tacitus Quote: “Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.”
Tacitus Quote: “Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.”
Tacitus Quote: “A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.”
Tacitus Quote: “Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.”
Tacitus Quote: “Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.”
Tacitus Quote: “Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”
Tacitus Quote: “It is human nature to hate the one whom you have hurt.”
Tacitus Quote: “A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.”
Tacitus Quote: “You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter.”
Tacitus Quote: “Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.”
Tacitus Quote: “The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
Tacitus Quote: “No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.”
Tacitus Quote: “Rumor is not always wrong.”
Tacitus Quote: “Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude.”
Tacitus Quote: “All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.”
Tacitus Quote: “Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.”
Tacitus Quote: “All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”
Tacitus Quote: “Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.”
Tacitus Quote: “In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.”
Tacitus Quote: “Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.”
Tacitus Quote: “This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.”
Tacitus Quote: “One who is allowed to sin, sins less.”
Tacitus Quote: “Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.”
Tacitus Quote: “The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.”
Tacitus Quote: “I concur in opinion with those who deem the Germans never to have intermarried with other nations; but to be a race, pure, unmixed, and stamped with a distinct character.”
Tacitus Quote: “To ravage, to slaughter, to steal, this they give the false name of empire; and where they create a desert, they call it peace.”
Tacitus Quote: “Terror and dread alone are the weak bonds of attachment; which once broken, they who cease to fear will begin to hate.”
Tacitus Quote: “Christianity is a pestilent superstition.”
Tacitus Quote: “The Vindili, to whom belong the Burgundiones, Varini, Carini, and Guttones; the Ingaevones, including the Cimbri, Teutoni, and Chauci; the Istaevones, near the Rhine, part of whom are the midland Cimbri; the Hermiones, containing the Suevi, Hermunduri, Catti, and Cherusci; and the Peucini and Bastarnae, bordering upon the Dacians.”
Tacitus Quote: “A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.”
Tacitus Quote: “All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.”
Tacitus Quote: “Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.”
Tacitus Quote: “Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.”
Tacitus Quote: “Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.”
Tacitus Quote: “It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.”
Tacitus Quote: “Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.”
Tacitus Quote: “The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.”
Tacitus Quote: “Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases.”
Tacitus Quote: “He was a strange mixture of good and bad, of luxury and industry, courtesy and arrogance. In leisure he was self-indulgent, but full of vigour on service. His outward behaviour was praiseworthy, though ill was spoken of his private life.”
Tacitus Quote: “Not that I would reject those resemblances of the human figure which are engraven in brass or marbles but as their originals are frail and perishable, so likewise are they: while the form of the mind is eternal, and not to be retained or expressed by any foreign matter, or the artist’s skill, but by the manners of the survivors.”
Tacitus Quote: “Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.”
Tacitus Quote: “An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.”
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