If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUSAdversity deprives us of our judgment.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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