Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSBe assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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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.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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