Rumor is not always wrong
TACITUSBottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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