All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
TACITUSThe more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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