Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TACITUSThe lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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