Things forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUSFalsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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