If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUSRulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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