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.
TACITUSA woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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