If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUSDeos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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