Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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