Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSA man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
More Tacitus Quotes
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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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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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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