Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSSecure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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