If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUSReason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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