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Tacitus Quotes
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![We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/840/839349/839349.webp "We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.] Picture Quote #1")
![Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/868/867398/867398.webp "Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.] Picture Quote #1")
![[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/995/994467/994467.webp "[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.] Picture Quote #1")
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![Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/3/1016/1015095/1015095.webp "Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.] Picture Quote #1")
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety (Tacitus Quotes)
I am my nearest neighbour (Tacitus Quotes)
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise (Tacitus Quotes)
A bad peace is even worse than war (Tacitus Quotes)
They terrify lest they should fear (Tacitus Quotes)
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt (Tacitus Quotes)
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.] (Tacitus Quotes)
Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.] (Tacitus Quotes)
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay. (Tacitus Quotes)
This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds. (Tacitus Quotes)
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. (Tacitus Quotes)
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.] (Tacitus Quotes)
Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.] (Tacitus Quotes)
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed. (Tacitus Quotes)
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter (Tacitus Quotes)
The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws (Tacitus Quotes)
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man (Tacitus Quotes)
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured (Tacitus Quotes)
None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart (Tacitus Quotes)
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt (Tacitus Quotes)
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied (Tacitus Quotes)
Think of your forefathers and posterity (Tacitus Quotes)
Good habits are here more effectual than good laws elsewhere (Tacitus Quotes)
All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open (Tacitus Quotes)
He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did (Tacitus Quotes)
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government (Tacitus Quotes)
Conspicuous by his absence (Tacitus Quotes)
He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher (Tacitus Quotes)
What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent (Tacitus Quotes)
Keen at the start, but careless at the end (Tacitus Quotes)