The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSReason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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