"Greater things are believed of those who are absent."

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"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."

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"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."

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"Custom adapts itself to expediency."

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"The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Fame
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"The hatred of relatives is the most violent."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Family
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"Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Fear
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"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Age and Aging
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"Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Guilt
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"It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Hatred
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"All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Health
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"Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir."

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"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Law and Lawyers
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"The more corrupt the state, the more laws."

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"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Leaders and Leadership
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"No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor."

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"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

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"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

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"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Moderation
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"When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Modesty
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"Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so."

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"Posterity will pay everyone their due."

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"They make a wilderness and call it peace."

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"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."

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"Posterity gives every man his true value."

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"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, Publius Cornelius on Prudence
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"Forbidden things have a secret charm."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Scarcity
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"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

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"So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Soldier
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"Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop."

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"Things forbidden have a secret charm."

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"The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes."

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"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."

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"All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Cities and City Life
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"The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Courage
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"If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger."

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"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Critics and Criticism
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"In all things there is a law of cycles."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Cycles
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"As for myself, may the sweet Muses, as Virgil says, bear me away to their holy places where sacred streams do flow, beyond the reach of anxiety and care, and free from the obligation of performing each day some task that goes against the grain. May I no longer have anything to do with the mad racket and the hazards of the forum, or tremble as I try a fall with white-faced Fame. I do not want to be roused from sleep by the clatter of morning callers or by some breathless messenger from the palace; I do not care, in drawing my will, to give a money-pledge for its safe execution through anxiety as to what is to happen afterwards; I wish for no larger estate than I can leave to the heir of my own free choice. Some day or other the last hour will strike also for me, and my prayer is that my effigy may be set up beside my grave, not grim and scowling, but all smiles and garlands, and that no one shall seek to honour my memory either by a motion in the senate or by a petition to the Emperor. "

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