There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUSCustom adapts itself to expediency.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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