When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUSWe extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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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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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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