In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUSNeglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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