Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
TACITUSNo one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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