Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSBottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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