When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUSNo hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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