All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
TACITUSThe powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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