Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TACITUSThe wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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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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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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