To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUSNoble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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