In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
TACITUSIn all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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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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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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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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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