To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
TACITUSNo hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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