Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
TACITUSPeople flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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