People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
TACITUSPower acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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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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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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