[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
TACITUSNone make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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In valor there is hope.
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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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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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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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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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