Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSLust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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