One who is allowed to sin, sins less
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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