In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSTo plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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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 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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are 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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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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