Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
TACITUSMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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