What did Tacitus mean by: A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. - Tacitus Historian · Italy Copy
+ We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.] Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Accomplish, Force, Prudence, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023February 6, 2024, Tacitus, Fame, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, History, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Favors, Integrity, Virtue, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Foundation, Politics, Wisdom, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Law, Liberty, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Commonwealth, Law, Libertarian, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Crime, Peace, War, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost. - Jenny Lawson Author
A world made to be lost, – A bitter life ‘twixt pain and nothing tost. - William Morris Designer · England
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry. - Max Beerbohm Satirist and caricaturist · England
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied. - Max Lerner Journalist · Belarus
