Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSRemedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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