Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSNothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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