No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TACITUSIn the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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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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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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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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