Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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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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