Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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