Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSPower acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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