The gods are on the side of the stronger.
TACITUSA bad peace is even worse than war.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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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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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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