Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
TACITUSThere can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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