Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
TACITUSThe lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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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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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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