When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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Fear 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.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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