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.
TACITUSWe accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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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 Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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