Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUSThe repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
More Tacitus Quotes
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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