Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TACITUSNo one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
More Tacitus Quotes
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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