In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
TACITUSA bad peace is even worse than war.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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