No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TACITUSThings forbidden have a secret charm.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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In valor there is hope.
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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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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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