Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
TACITUSThey make a desert and call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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 form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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