We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
TACITUSA woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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