Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
TACITUSNature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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In valor there is hope.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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