When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
TACITUSIn all things there is a law of cycles.
More Tacitus Quotes
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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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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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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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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