Conspicuous by his absence.
TACITUSNothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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