The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSRemedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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