Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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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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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Secure 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.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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