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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Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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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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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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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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Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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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Nihil deorum honoribus relictum, cum se templis et effigie numinum per flamines et sacerdotes coli vellet.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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.