Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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