Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSMany who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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