Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
TACITUSFalsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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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