When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
TACITUSThe love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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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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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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