Tacitus Quotes
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Vitia erunt donec homines
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Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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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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Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.
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Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and, by the dread and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.
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Divisa inter exercitum ducesque munia: militibus cupidinem pugnandi convenire, duces providendo, consultando, cunctatione saepius quam temeritate prodesse. ut pro virili portione armis ac manu victoriam iuverit, ratione et consilio, propriis ducis artibus, profuturum.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.