Rumor is not always wrong
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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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 sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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