Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
TACITUSNeglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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 of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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