An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TACITUSThings forbidden have a secret charm.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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