Tacitus Quotes
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
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…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. 2
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Scutum reliquisse praecipuum flagitium, nec aut sacris adesse aut concilium inire ignominioso fas; multique superstites bellorum infamiam laqueo finierunt.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Pacem sine dubio post haec, verum cruentam.