To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUSWhatever is unknown is magnified.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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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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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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