Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
TACITUSWhen a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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