Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
TACITUSIt is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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