Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TACITUSAbuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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