None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSNecessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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