All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Rumor is not always wrong
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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