Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSIn all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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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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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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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