Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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