None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSNecessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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