The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUSA man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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