Tacitus Quotes
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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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.