In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUSViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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