It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
TACITUSWar will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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