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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUS Forbidden things have a secret charm
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Forbidden things have a secret charm.
TACITUS The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
JOHN RUSKIN The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
JOHN RUSKIN She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
OSCAR WILDE Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.
CHRISTOPHER B. KREBS The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
VOLTAIRE Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm
EDGAR SALTUS As to the ancient historians, from THOMAS PAINE A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to ...
SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL (3) In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.
DAVID GIUNTOLI Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is...
SARAH DESSEN I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some s...
DAVID BRAINERD I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is.
-Lily Francone
LORENA BATHEY There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
HENRY VAN DYKE The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake ...
ANITA LOOS I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to w...
HAVELOCK ELLIS My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases th...
SHILOH WALKER The secret of getting things done is to act!
DANTE ALIGHIERI I guess we are keeping some things secret.
ANDREA VARNIER The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts,...
JOHN STRACHAN I am ugly, but what I do have is charm.
RONALDINHO I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
KURT VONNEGUT The secret of getting things done is to act!
BENJAMIN O. DAVID I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The secret of getting things done is to act.
DANTE ALIGHIERI Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You eit...
COLM FEORE 'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved...
TOM UDALL Beauty is quite different from charm, beauty is what you notice in a woman, charm is when a woman no...
UNKNOWN A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age
VOLTAIRE He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called "It.''
ELINOR GLYN Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meetin...
P. D. JAMES A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
ANITA BROOKNER I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
JUDITH KRANTZ Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
JOHN MASON BROWN You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual live...
GORE VIDAL We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to partici...
JUDITH MARTIN Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flat...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART When you feel bad about yourself you reverse your magnet and repel people.
S A GRAFIO Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
WILLIAM CONGREVE You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman ...
JOHN ERSKINE There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman i...
JOHN ERSKINE There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
JOSH BILLINGS A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
EDGAR SALTUS Lady Bird Johnson had that extra-special Southern charm that you just can't resist. Mrs. Goldwater w...
NORMAN ROCKWELL The great charm of recruiting as subject matter is that we don't know. We don't know what is going t...
ALLEN WALLACE They're the one team in the tournament we haven't beat yet. We're hoping the third time's the charm.
RICK GIBSON There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKER The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
LUIS BUñUEL But he had eloquence and charm, as well as a cutting intellect that made his views and perspectives...
BOB RAE Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds
JOHN MILTON Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare ...
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE Our theme is South County Southern Charm.
DEANNA FISHER The illicit has an added charm
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS You tried to charm them and fake them out, ... They saw you lie to them. I saw you lie. It was an in...
GERARD LYNCH Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.
CONNIE BROCKWAY How often do you see the attorney general go on a sort of a charm offensive? ... I see this as a def...
LAURA MURPHY Every big city has its little communities, but they don't have the quaint, small-town charm,
MICHAEL GOSS If you're willing to go with its [the show's] particular charm, it is magical,
OSKAR EUSTIS I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued ...
AL FRANKEN Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well, And never have failed in your ...
MATHURIN M. BALLOU How the devil is it that fresh features Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
JOHN BYROM I have a secret love of jazz.
CARLY RAE JEPSEN It's not a secret that when the ball starts going through the hoop good things happen.
ANDY GESTELAND Age, like distance lends a double charm.
OLIVER HERFORD Charm is a product of the unexpected.
JOSE MARTI Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Brevity is a great charm of eloquence
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
CICERO We're ready. The third time's a charm.
ANISHA QUEEN Age, like distance lends a double charm.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Age, like distance, lends a double charm.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving. NEIL GAIMAN many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting; but a ...
ANONYMOUS If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less qua...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) We argue that you can't have a system of secret detention centers without secret flights to get them...
ANNE FITZGERALD Here we have a game that combines the charm of a Pentagon briefing with the excitement of double-ent...
CECIL ADAMS in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and...
LYSANDER SPOONER He touches nothing but he adds a charm.
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not
FRANK ZAPPA I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKE I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone
RAINER MARIA RILKE Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
TACITUS No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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TACITUS When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUS When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
TACITUS To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUS It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
TACITUS A bad peace is even worse than war.
TACITUS In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
TACITUS Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUS Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
TACITUS As for myself, may the sweet Muses, as Virgil says, bear me away to their holy places where sacred s...
TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
TACITUS We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealt...
TACITUS Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
TACITUS The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear ...
TACITUS If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
TACITUS Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
TACITUS To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderne...
TACITUS Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUS So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUS Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUS They make a wilderness and call it peace.
TACITUS Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUS It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUS Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
TACITUS Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUS All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
TACITUS The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TACITUS All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
TACITUS Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUS When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUS Posterity gives every man his true value.
TACITUS In all things there is a law of cycles.
TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
TACITUS It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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TACITUS All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first,...
TACITUS Things forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUS A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing ...
TACITUS The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TACITUS There will be vice as long as there are men.
TACITUS It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.
TACITUS A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TACITUS The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca...
TACITUS Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TACITUS The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
TACITUS The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
TACITUS The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUS Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly mis...
TACITUS Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TACITUS It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found...
TACITUS Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
TACITUS Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
TACITUS He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will n...
TACITUS Forbidden things have a secret charm.
TACITUS Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUS The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
TACITUS It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin ...
TACITUS Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUS He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempe...
TACITUS Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUS There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUS So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, other...
TACITUS Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and t...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Lat., Neque femina amissa pud...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hat...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere fa...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Blood is thicker than water.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The sun sets without thy assistance.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam a...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nem...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour degu...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse ...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin ...
CORNELIUS TACITUS No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
CORNELIUS TACITUS The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.
CORNELIUS TACITUS It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
CORNELIUS TACITUS There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
CORNELIUS TACITUS That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
CORNELIUS TACITUS Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
CORNELIUS TACITUS In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be estab...
CORNELIUS TACITUS I am my nearest neighbour.
CORNELIUS TACITUS He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempe...
CORNELIUS TACITUS Custom adapts itself to expediency
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Forbidden things have a secret charm
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, c...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Rumor is not always wrong
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
MARCUS CLAUDIUS TACITUS The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fea...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The unknown always seems sublime
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Posterity gives every man his true value.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require pe...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS One who is allowed to sin, sins less
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Love of fame is the last thing even the wise give up
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Posterity will pay everyone their due.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is human nature to hate those whom you have injured
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS A bad peace is even worse than war.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS We are corrupted by prosperity
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly mis...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When monarchs through their bloodthirsty commanders lay waste a country, they dignify their atrocity...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting behind it
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Whatever is unknown is magnified
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it bri...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Reason and calm judgment: the qualities especially belonging to a leader.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Greater things are believed of those who are absent
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten,...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderne...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first,...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The illicit has an added charm
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS There will be vice as long as there are men
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS