The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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