The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSA bad peace is even worse than war.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have 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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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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