None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSSeek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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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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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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