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.
TACITUSPosterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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In valor there is hope.
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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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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