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.
TACITUSIn the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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