Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSWhen the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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