War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUSThey make solitude, which they call peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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 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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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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