Rumor is not always wrong
TACITUSRumor is not always wrong
More Tacitus Quotes
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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