When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
TACITUSThat cannot be safe which is not honourable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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