Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
TACITUSAll bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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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 Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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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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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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