The gods are on the side of the stronger.
TACITUSIf you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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