Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
TACITUSOnce killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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