The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUS[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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