War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
More Tacitus Quotes
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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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