Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSNature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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