Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUSA desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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