Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSIt is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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