Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSThings forbidden have a secret charm.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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