Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSFlattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
More Tacitus Quotes
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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