Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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