The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
TACITUSConspicuous by his absence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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