Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
TACITUSAll 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Rumor is not always wrong
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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