Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUSIt is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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