Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
TACITUSPower won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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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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