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.
TACITUSTo 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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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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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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