Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUSIn stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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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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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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