The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSOld things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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In valor there is hope.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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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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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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