If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUSA man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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