It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TACITUSThe wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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