Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSBottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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