Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
TACITUSThings forbidden have a secret charm.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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