People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
TACITUSCandor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
More Tacitus Quotes
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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