No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
TACITUSNo one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
More Tacitus Quotes
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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