Tacitus

Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Tacitus?

  • → Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
  • → All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
  • → No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
  • → No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Tacitus.

  • → We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
  • → The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
  • → There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
  • → People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Tacitus.

  • → It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
  • → We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
  • → Silence is the virtue of fools.
  • → Things forbidden have a secret charm.
  
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