A bad peace is even worse than war.
TACITUSThe love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Be 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.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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