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Quote DB :: Authors :: Tacitus :: View Quote View Quote "Greater things are believed of those who are absent." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Tacitus Listed in: Miscellaneous Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.5  Rate Quote 2 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Tacitus "A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man." "Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it." "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." "In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous." "It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families." Top 5 quotes from Miscellaneous "Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness." "Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities." "As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever." "Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity." "Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only."

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