If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUSThe love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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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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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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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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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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