Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TACITUSNeglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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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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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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