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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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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 word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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