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Quote DB :: Authors :: Tacitus :: View Quote View Quote "Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Tacitus Listed in: Truth & Lies Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 5 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Tacitus "A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man." "Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it." "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." "In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous." "It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families." Top 5 quotes from Truth & Lies "One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground." "Truth sits upon the lips of dying men." "Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other." "There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve." "All malice has injustice at it's end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most."

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