An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
TACITUSThe injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
More Tacitus Quotes
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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