By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
TACITUSVictor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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