A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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