Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSIf you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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