The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUSConspicuous by his absence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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