Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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More Tacitus Quotes
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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