Things forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUSFear 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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