Top 5 quotes from Tacitus |
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- "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."
- "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."
- "Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."
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