The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
TACITUSNone make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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