A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
TACITUSLust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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