In all things there is a law of cycles.
TACITUSA woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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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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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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