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- He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.
- Cornelius Tacitus
- I am my nearest neighbour.
- Cornelius Tacitus
- In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
- Cornelius Tacitus
- It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
- Cornelius Tacitus
- Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
- Cornelius Tacitus
- No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
- Cornelius Tacitus
- That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
- Cornelius Tacitus
- There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
- Cornelius Tacitus
- It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
- Cornelius Tacitus, Histories
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