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12 Quotes for 'Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)' in the Database.
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Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) Quotes
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very
circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies
eorum non videbantur.]
Topic: Absence
Source: Annales (bk. III, ch. 76), from the funeral of Junia
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return
them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
[Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse;
ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
Topic: Benefits
Source: Annales (IV, 18)
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When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.]
Topic: Chastity
Source: Annales (IV, 3)
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The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Historioe (bk. II, 70)
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was
afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
[Lat., Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non
ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces.]
Topic: Cowards
Source: Annales (IV, 62)
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by
indolence.
[Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam
protulat.]
Topic: Idleness
Source: Annales (XVI, 18)
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp
sting behind it.
[Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,
Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]
Topic: Jesting
Source: Annales (XV, 68)
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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.
Topic: Medicine
Source: Annales (bk. VI, ch. XLVI)
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He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen.
[Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.]
Topic: Obscurity
Source: Annales (III, 76)
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
[Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
Topic: Posterity
Source: Annales (IV, 35)
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
[Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]
Topic: Revolution
Source: Annales (IV, 34)
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
Topic: Rumor
Source: Agricola (IX)
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