In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUSCustom adapts itself to expediency.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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