The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
TACITUSRemedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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