In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSTo show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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