The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSIf you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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