A bad peace is even worse than war.
TACITUSCustom adapts itself to expediency.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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