Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUSWhen a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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