When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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