There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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