Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSWe accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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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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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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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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