Things forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUSThe Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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