Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
More Tacitus Quotes
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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