A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
TACITUSCrime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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