When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUSThe love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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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 hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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