Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSDeos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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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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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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