A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
TACITUSTo rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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