When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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