War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUSSecure 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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