Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
TACITUSNoble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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