Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
TACITUSPower acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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[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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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