Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSWhen a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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