Tacitus Quotes
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Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
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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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Vitia erunt donec homines
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Tiberii Gaique et Claudii ac Neronis res florentibus ipsis ob metum falsae, postquam occiderant, recentibus odiis compositae sunt. inde consilium mihi pauca de Augusto et extrema tradere, mox Tiberii principatum et cetera, sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.
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Nihil deorum honoribus relictum, cum se templis et effigie numinum per flamines et sacerdotes coli vellet.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.